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Banishing Light
USD $0.21
USD foil $0.28
EUR €0.08
MTGO 0.03 tix

Banishing Light

{2}{W}

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

"If you cannot find light in the darkness, create it." —Aural, high cleric

Set
Bloomburrow (BLB #1)
Rarity
Common
Mana value
3
Released
2024-08-02
Artist
Zoltan Boros
EDHREC rank
#2,360
Colour identity
{W}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.25
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2025-07-25

    Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled.

  • 2025-07-25

    If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won’t be exiled.

  • 2025-07-25

    If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.

  • 2025-07-25

    If an Aura is exiled this way, its owner chooses what it will enchant as it returns to the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to a permanent an opponent controls with hexproof, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains in exile for the rest of the game.

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